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[Greek Tragedy]

I actually had it "bookmarked" somewhere, or I left myself a note as to when it started. I believe he was trying to say something like, "Don't just say things to say things."

[John Gleich]

TGHIJGSTO!!!

it can never be said often, or loudly, enough.

Not sure if that can be blown up at all... so....



Saw this on the road a while back and thought that it needed to be shared!

[David Collinge]

Ah, thanks for the explanation. We used to have a lot more crazy posters. Where did they go?? All get banned? 

My understanding is that it take A LOT for Pat to ban anyone. (After all, I'm still here, and I used to be a lot worse than I am now!   Plus, of course, the site's advertising income depends on eyeballs.)  I suspect that most simply tired of trolldom on this site and moved on to more fervent sites.  MOST of us here are 'boringly' civilized!

Don't sell yourself short, Chuck.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Ah, thanks for the explanation. We used to have a lot more crazy posters. Where did they go?? All get banned? 

My understanding is that it take A LOT for Pat to ban anyone. (After all, I'm still here, and I used to be a lot worse than I am now!   Plus, of course, the site's advertising income depends on eyeballs.)  I suspect that most simply tired of trolldom on this site and moved on to more fervent sites.  MOST of us here are 'boringly' civilized!

Don't sell yourself short, Chuck.

The Guru hasn't come after me in years like in the days he gave me my name!

Either he has mellowed or I have - I suspect both.

[pg04]

Believe it or not or not, I had my own run ins with the guru on here way back when I was a student at Brockport. I can recall getting either suspended or blocked briefly in the previous incarnation of the board. It's been so long I don't remember exactly why.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Heck... I got my START by having run ins with the guru at the VERY beginning of these boards. My reward? He quoted me on the Post Up graphic for years. LOL

[Pat Coleman]

I believe all of the above is true.

Indeed, something Dave said became the Posting Up graphic quote, although I used pictures of Andy Panko and later Luke Moo to illustrate. It does take a lot to get a poster banned these days -- partially because you folks as a community do a good job setting good examples and/or keeping people in line. I don't remember banning pg04 but that is obviously a *long* time ago and he and I are Facebook friends and such.

I think I've definitely mellowed. I get amused by reading the 2005 posts that are on this board -- at least, until I cringe. I'm 43 now -- not necessarily feeling my age because I'm not sure what 43 is supposed to feel like, but I definitely have tried to have a much thicker skin and a slower trigger finger.

Also, because I no longer need to come in and manually delete posts in order to keep the board from overloading the server, I spend less time on D3boards now. More time on Twitter. Definitely the nature of the beast these days.

D3boards has never been a huge part of our ad revenue -- it runs a little bit less than 10%, even though it generally provides about 25% of our page views. Just the nature of the beast, really. Forums never provide high ad rates. But its value to the network is much greater than 10% and it isn't going anywhere.

[pg04]

Yeah it was something like 2002 or so. Naive college student  and all that . I am not sure why it all happened but I do recall emailing to apologize. Unless I've completely constructed the memory which I guess is possible with me  .

There used to be a lot of doozies here and I am not sure I can blame the quick trigger finger. I think all us now old timers have mellowed. 

I've enjoyed getting to know Pat virtually over the years, though.

[Gregory Sager]

TGHIJGSTO!!!

it can never be said often, or loudly, enough.

It may be foolish to ask what it means but...

A couple(?) of years ago, a wildly over-enthusiastic Richard Stockton supporter kept arguing his team was being grossly disrespected by the poll.  In his rabid haste to post, he would go ALL CAPS and mangle words.  I no longer recall whether this particular 'word' was even translatable into English in his post (I think it might have been intended as 'things to'), but it has become a standing joke among regulars.

David Collinge memorably referred to the offending poster, hplc2222, as a "Romanian spambot". The enthusiasm of hplc2222, a brand-new poster at the time, was contagious (at least for awhile), and his dedication to researching every D3 team's W-L was admirable. But his incoherence, combined with his bizarre delusion that D-Mac was rolling in the big bucks as a D3 media celebrity, spelled his eventual end via banishment ... but not before we all had a ringside seat to such hysteria as:

yes i dcid, this is a multi billionh dollar year indudtry, ... if you cant see it, you need glasses

There are not a billion dollars in Division III basketball, sir.

That was a great moment in d3boards.com history, right up there with the best of the D3 Championship Belt^TM thread and the time that the board regulars decided to build a quote pyramid in one of the multi-regional rooms.

TGHIJGSTO!!!

it can never be said often, or loudly, enough.

Not sure if that can be blown up at all... so....



Saw this on the road a while back and thought that it needed to be shared!

Nice!

I actually had it "bookmarked" somewhere, or I left myself a note as to when it started. I believe he was trying to say something like, "Don't just say things to say things."

Here is the actual quote (which linguistic archaeologists have theorized was intended to read, "Don't just say things to say things, Richard Stockton is as good as 15-0"):

DONT JUSDT SAY TGHIJGSTO SAY THINGS, RICHARD STOCKMTON IS AS GOOD AS 15-0

It's even better in the original context, because you can see how it reads as a demand to not merely say "TGHIJGSTO" in reply, but to say "things" as well. Naturally, resident wisenheimer David Collinge immediately replied to hplc2222's post in a defiant manner:

TGHIJGSTO!

I like to think of it as the d3boards.com equivalent to General Anthony McAuliffe's reply of "Nuts!" to the German demand that he surrender the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

Another nice aspect of that original post is that it allows me to occasionally think of our overzealous friend's favorite school as "Richard Stockmton". Of course, he also had a couple of other fat-fingered episodes regarding the home school of the Ospreys:

From an outsider looking in, it may look like Stockiton is doing it on offense, but that is far from the truth

they havnt had a win since stocktopn made the finals

"Stockmton" or "Stockiton" or "Stocktopn"? You decide.

Some of his other posts were masterpieces of gibberish as well:

there are 43 confersnces, 416 d3 teams, stcktons made the final 4 twice in 87 season,.. it would take i estimate 3200 before every team in d3 gets into the final 4

so what are you talking about

i realize i am one person in the windwebsite, and a few stranglers like me

... but my favorite remains:

oh, it takes a person, really??? well that persoin should not have a job of it it is 2 hpours latewter and it still says 450-409,... you thing these peopkme deserve to get paid gor theie qoute unquote job



come on man

what if you were making a medicaqtion in aq phrama, and you boss waqs like, oh werll , fill olut the aperwork when you caqn

lol

are you seriopus?

I felt a little badly about picking on hplc2222 at first. After all, he was obviously putting a lot of time into constructing his own ballots while painstakingly assembling lists of all of D3's one-loss teams, two-loss teams, etc., even though he didn't seem to be putting much effort into using Spellcheck. Then I found out that he was harassing D-Mac off the boards. After that, the gloves were off in terms of making fun of hplc2222, as far as I was concerned.

Of course, hplc2222 firmly believed that D-Mac had it coming to him. After all:

to totally ignore the njac on hoopseville, is notr tight,

dave, we have been through this before,.......

you are a mermber of the mecdia,... i understand you like to tsalk about d3 basketball

That's almost a compelling argument. Many's the time that I, too, have thought that D-Mac was notr tight, as far as mermbers of the mecdia are concerned.

Even Darryl "Perfect Karma" Nester, the politest man on the boards this side of Ralph Turner, got in on the fun:

I know they've lost seven games already, but I would be absolutely terrified to play Mary Hardin-Baylor right now.  Best seven loss team in d3, I think.

I believe that the established precedent on this board is that, if you are going to make such a statement, you must follow it up with detailed statistics.  Please begin with a list of all teams in D3 with 7 losses, and your analysis of the quality of those losses.  You can then move on to telling us why MHB deserves to be considered the best of that group. (And perhaps even better than some of the six- and five-loss teams.  We'll need a list of those, too.)  If, at some point, you feel obliged to post increasingly incoherent comments, and/or post in all caps, we would certainly understand.

But this might be my favorite dig at our posting-challenged friend from Dick Stockton:

i understand uw stevens point and the one or even 2 loss teams right now, have real shot at the championship,......

but of the 42 teams in the nation with no more than 3 losses, 33 had votes ,.. 9 did not

stockton sits at 32, william paterson at 30

they play each lother saturday

ikt is a bubble game

voters already have them inside, in this

so the winner of the game gets recopgnition

i do get it

usualy one team from the conference njac gets recopgnitrion, and 2 teams get in the ncaa tourney

they havnt had a win since stocktopn made the finals

but

i am not even talki g about that

i am talkingt about at least 1 team, the winnewr of tommorows game, william patterson at stockton,.. maintaining a postion yo at least get a favorable game inj the ncaa tourney

am i really wrong ?

Yes

[WUPHF]

If I had unlimited free time, I would seriously develop and maintain two Tumblr blogs.

The first would be a blog of GIF files recorded from live streams of Grey Giovanine tearing off his coat and throwing it in to the bench or stands (why no Augustana student has done this is beyond me) and the second would be a blog of every Gregory Sager post that included more than three block quotes.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

TGHIJGSTO!!!

it can never be said often, or loudly, enough.

It may be foolish to ask what it means but...

A couple(?) of years ago, a wildly over-enthusiastic Richard Stockton supporter kept arguing his team was being grossly disrespected by the poll.  In his rabid haste to post, he would go ALL CAPS and mangle words.  I no longer recall whether this particular 'word' was even translatable into English in his post (I think it might have been intended as 'things to'), but it has become a standing joke among regulars.

David Collinge memorably referred to the offending poster, hplc2222, as a "Romanian spambot". The enthusiasm of hplc2222, a brand-new poster at the time, was contagious (at least for awhile), and his dedication to researching every D3 team's W-L was admirable. But his incoherence, combined with his bizarre delusion that D-Mac was rolling in the big bucks as a D3 media celebrity, spelled his eventual end via banishment ... but not before we all had a ringside seat to such hysteria as:

yes i dcid, this is a multi billionh dollar year indudtry, ... if you cant see it, you need glasses

There are not a billion dollars in Division III basketball, sir.

That was a great moment in d3boards.com history, right up there with the best of the D3 Championship Belt^TM thread and the time that the board regulars decided to build a quote pyramid in one of the multi-regional rooms.

TGHIJGSTO!!!

it can never be said often, or loudly, enough.

Not sure if that can be blown up at all... so....



Saw this on the road a while back and thought that it needed to be shared!

Nice!

I actually had it "bookmarked" somewhere, or I left myself a note as to when it started. I believe he was trying to say something like, "Don't just say things to say things."

Here is the actual quote (which linguistic archaeologists have theorized was intended to read, "Don't just say things to say things, Richard Stockton is as good as 15-0"):

DONT JUSDT SAY TGHIJGSTO SAY THINGS, RICHARD STOCKMTON IS AS GOOD AS 15-0

It's even better in the original context, because you can see how it reads as a demand to not merely say "TGHIJGSTO" in reply, but to say "things" as well. Naturally, resident wisenheimer David Collinge immediately replied to hplc2222's post in a defiant manner:

TGHIJGSTO!

I like to think of it as the d3boards.com equivalent to General Anthony McAuliffe's reply of "Nuts!" to the German demand that he surrender the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

Another nice aspect of that original post is that it allows me to occasionally think of our overzealous friend's favorite school as "Richard Stockmton". Of course, he also had a couple of other fat-fingered episodes regarding the home school of the Ospreys:

From an outsider looking in, it may look like Stockiton is doing it on offense, but that is far from the truth

they havnt had a win since stocktopn made the finals

"Stockmton" or "Stockiton" or "Stocktopn"? You decide.

Some of his other posts were masterpieces of gibberish as well:

there are 43 confersnces, 416 d3 teams, stcktons made the final 4 twice in 87 season,.. it would take i estimate 3200 before every team in d3 gets into the final 4

so what are you talking about

i realize i am one person in the windwebsite, and a few stranglers like me

... but my favorite remains:

oh, it takes a person, really??? well that persoin should not have a job of it it is 2 hpours latewter and it still says 450-409,... you thing these peopkme deserve to get paid gor theie qoute unquote job



come on man

what if you were making a medicaqtion in aq phrama, and you boss waqs like, oh werll , fill olut the aperwork when you caqn

lol

are you seriopus?

I felt a little badly about picking on hplc2222 at first. After all, he was obviously putting a lot of time into constructing his own ballots while painstakingly assembling lists of all of D3's one-loss teams, two-loss teams, etc., even though he didn't seem to be putting much effort into using Spellcheck. Then I found out that he was harassing D-Mac off the boards. After that, the gloves were off in terms of making fun of hplc2222, as far as I was concerned.

Of course, hplc2222 firmly believed that D-Mac had it coming to him. After all:

to totally ignore the njac on hoopseville, is notr tight,

dave, we have been through this before,.......

you are a mermber of the mecdia,... i understand you like to tsalk about d3 basketball

That's almost a compelling argument. Many's the time that I, too, have thought that D-Mac was notr tight, as far as mermbers of the mecdia are concerned.

Even Darryl "Perfect Karma" Nester, the politest man on the boards this side of Ralph Turner, got in on the fun:

I know they've lost seven games already, but I would be absolutely terrified to play Mary Hardin-Baylor right now.  Best seven loss team in d3, I think.

I believe that the established precedent on this board is that, if you are going to make such a statement, you must follow it up with detailed statistics.  Please begin with a list of all teams in D3 with 7 losses, and your analysis of the quality of those losses.  You can then move on to telling us why MHB deserves to be considered the best of that group. (And perhaps even better than some of the six- and five-loss teams.  We'll need a list of those, too.)  If, at some point, you feel obliged to post increasingly incoherent comments, and/or post in all caps, we would certainly understand.

But this might be my favorite dig at our posting-challenged friend from Dick Stockton:

i understand uw stevens point and the one or even 2 loss teams right now, have real shot at the championship,......

but of the 42 teams in the nation with no more than 3 losses, 33 had votes ,.. 9 did not

stockton sits at 32, william paterson at 30

they play each lother saturday

ikt is a bubble game

voters already have them inside, in this

so the winner of the game gets recopgnition

i do get it

usualy one team from the conference njac gets recopgnitrion, and 2 teams get in the ncaa tourney

they havnt had a win since stocktopn made the finals

but

i am not even talki g about that

i am talkingt about at least 1 team, the winnewr of tommorows game, william patterson at stockton,.. maintaining a postion yo at least get a favorable game inj the ncaa tourney

am i really wrong ?

Yes

OUTSTANDING! I had forgotten about a few of these... I am sitting here cracking up next to my very sick wife (as we sit at the ER)... I actually feel bad and need to move on from this page quickly. LOL

His harassment off these boards... was very real... and way over the line.

[David Collinge]

I remember getting a LOT of joy out of the seemingly harmless question "are you seriopus?"

Dave, best wishes for the best outcome for your wife.

[sac]

I remember getting a LOT of joy out of the seemingly harmless question "are you seriopus?"

I am seriopus, and stop calling me Shirpley

[pg04]

Sager, I gave you +k yesterday but will again as soon as I can. Thanks for the effort! That's great.

Dave, thoughts to you and your wife.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I remember getting a LOT of joy out of the seemingly harmless question "are you seriopus?"

Dave, best wishes for the best outcome for your wife.

+k  I'd forgotten all about 'seriopus' - that was all the rage for awhile.